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Oldenburg University

“There were three compelling reasons for Oldenburg to choose to reinvest with Bright. Firstly, Bright helps you to get your HPC environment up and running very quickly. Secondly, Bright makes it incredibly easy to manage your HPC environment which takes a lot of pressure of the IT Services team. Thirdly, Bright is a very robust and reliable, so our team is free to focus on other tasks.”

— Dr. Stefan Harfst, Oldenburg University

CBS

“Research projects are competitive by nature, so it’s an advantage to carry out analysis efficiently to produce results as quickly as possible. Bright allows this to happen.”

“Integration is nearly always an issue when aligning two organisations, but Bright integrated into Computerome seamlessly. The Bright team was responsive and flexible, and very focused.”

— Peter Løngreen, Head of High-Performance Computing & IT at CBS

University of Exeter

“I couldn’t believe that it only took 4 hours to install the Bright software and get our new cluster live, and then just 20 hours to be entirely operational.”

“Bright makes cluster management very little effort. The support team at Bright are very responsive. It’s clear to see Bright’s value for money when delivery is achieved in such a short time.”

— Dr. M D Sharma, Research Fellow, University of Exeter

BioMed X

“Bright Computing allows us to concentrate on our research projects instead of spending too much time on IT administration tasks.”

“Bright Computing has made it really straightforward to build and operate our HPC environment, offering an easy to manage solution which enables us to perform a variety of calculations in order to drive our research.”

— Dr. Simone Fulle, Group Leader, BioMed X

Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

“We have access to a tremendous amount of existing technology in traditional HPC clusters, and will use the Bright-powered big data cluster as a test bed to see how different technology might make our simulations easier to implement or speed up processing.”

— Keith Bisset, senior research scientist at VBI

“My job would become very difficult if we stopped using Bright Cluster Manager. Bright makes managing our complex system intuitive and easy so I can focus on keeping the consumers of our HPC services productive.”

— Bill Marmagas,Senior Systems Engineer at VBI

“Bright Cluster Manager plays an essential role in our success serving our customers. With Bright, we deliver reliable compute services rapidly, with minimal disruption. This allows us to keep our operating expenses at a minimum.”

— Kevin Shinpaugh, Director of Information Technology and High Performance Computing at VBI

CHCP

“This exotic blend of capabilities will require a sophisticated and easy to use management platform, in order to simplify, centralise and automate the administration of the many moving parts. I am delighted to have chosen Bright Computing's Bright Cluster Manager to fulfil this role.”

— Dr. Happy Sithole, Director of the CHCP

Van Andel Institute

“Using Bright reduces the labor and effort needed for management and change control, and also facilitates the accelerating trend toward cloud computing.”

“Although our existing workloads are 90 percent cluster/grid, we expect to move toward the cloud in the future, and Bright offers an expandable and scalable turnkey solution for allocating resources. We can dynamically shift the ratio between cloud and cluster resources without down time.”

“We know that cloud computing is the wave of the future. The hybrid approach we are getting with Bright is providing a path that helps us transition. ”

— Zack Ramjan, Research computing architect at Van Andel Institute

Montana State University

“The UI has been great. Our users submit and monitor their own jobs with ease, and we can focus on monitoring and managing the cluster with increased facility and insight.”

— Pol Llovet, Associate Director of Cyberinfrastructure at Montana State University

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

“As scientists, we always are time constrained. Our priority is our research, not managing our clusters. Bright is intuitive to use and, with it, I can effectively manage my cluster without wasting time writing scripts, or synchronizing management tool revisions. Provisioning is fast and easy. I prefer this approach over open-source toolkits.”

— Dr. Akinori Yamanaka, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

— Hiroshi Sato, HPCTech Engineering Manager at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

National Institute of Aerospace

“Bright’s tech support is awesome.”

“Even with an open source installation, I would have had to procure umpteen different software packages. That would have skyrocketed the cost. From a hit-the-ground-running point of view, Bright just had everything we needed.”

— Wendy Murray, IT director at National Institute of Aerospace

MARIN

“Bright is instrumental to our research at MARIN – it empowers our IT team to make optimal use of the software, while focusing on the research. It is the best tool for the job.”

Aircraft Design of the University of Stuttgart

“Bright Cluster Manager is exceptionally user friendly and allows us to do basic management tasks quickly and efficiently.”

— Alexander Schön, Cluster manager at Aircraft Design of the University of Stuttgart

VSC-3

“The cluster can easily be managed and monitored by Bright Cluster Manager.”

“This new cluster gives our scientists the tools they need for years to come.”

— Dr.Eng. Ernst Haunschmid, Technical Project Leader at VSC-3

Swiss National Supercomputing Centre

“There’s a growing interest in production use of hybrid-architecture systems in our HPC centre.”

“This means we need to be able to provision, monitor and manage systems with accelerators and coprocessors with minimal administrative overhead. Our evaluation of Bright Cluster Manager demonstrated that it met our needs in a satisfactory way.”

MINES ParisTech

“Bright significantly eases the day-to-day management of all HPC resources. For example, using Bright's capability to logically group nodes according to hardware type or location, we are able to rapidly perform scheduled service on a highly selective basis.”

“The Bright-enabled efficiency and effectiveness of our IT operations is already allowing us to improve the level of service we provide to our on and off-site researchers. In fact, most of our researchers are completely unaware that their materials-science HPC cluster is in fact a consolidated resource that spans two physical sites.”

Intel

“Bright Cluster Manager makes it easy to build highly compatible, ready-to-run clusters using Intel Xeon processors. We are pleased that Bright is bringing the same ease of use and administration to Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. ”

EMD International

“The installation and initial integration of the cluster has run very smoothly, and was completed in less than one week time. In our project schedule we had expected this task to last much longer, so by selecting a joint Dell - ClusterVision solution, we have been able to focus our efforts in developing our new software services and linking it into our existing infrastructure.”

EMD International

“The cluster was designed to provide an easy to manage, scalable solution. With Bright Cluster Manager, EMD International will be able to grow their computational capacity locally, or into the cloud using Bright’s built in cloud-bursting capabilities.”

— Steen Kronby, Solutions Director

Tsinghua University

“We needed a solution that would provide deep insights and better visibility into every aspect of our cluster. Bright’s highly intuitive interface gives us a complete view, including the ability to drill down to examine specific issues.”

“In addition, Bright provides a multi-OS image that gives us more control over every aspect of our cluster’s operations. As a result, our researchers can develop benchmark software more quickly because we minimize downtime for maintenance and troubleshooting performance issues.”

— Dr. Xue, of the Center for Earth System Science at Tsinghua University

Syracuse University

“We selected Bright Cluster Manager for its intuitive interface, ease of use and responsive support.”

“Bright makes sure you have the right drivers on the GPU and CPU nodes, so you don’t have to even think about it.”

“I don’t have days to search community news sites and HPC user message boards for fixes to broken open source tools. I need something where I could get support within 24 hours.”

“My success is measured by my published results, and the educational experience of our students and graduate students. I am not measured on cluster management — but our cluster does have to work.”

Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

“It's been a great run. Bright and Fedora EPEL distros have saved a tremendous amount of time for me.”

“Bright's image-based provisioning lets me reconfigure Alamo on the fly to meet the specific needs of each researcher's compute jobs.”

“I click on a check box and the cluster management suite installs a server, sets up a client and I'm done. Further, Bright's ease of use and full integration with job schedulers have produced major time savings.”

“I get dedicated product support, so I don't waste time searching forums and message boards for answers. In addition, I can easily reproduce any testing environment in minutes and rapidly deploy a new environment.”

“My decision was based on minimizing the time required to manage the cluster: automatic time-consuming tasks and reducing complexity — balanced with providing a high level of service to our users. In the end, I selected Bright Cluster Manager.”

— David Gignac, Senior Systems Administrator responsible for the FutureGrid cluster at TACC

Stony Brook University

“We needed a more sophisticated solution that would minimize the effort required to monitor and manage our computing clusters, Bright gives us full visibility to every aspect of our cluster in an intuitive GUI, and makes it fast and easy to make changes.”

“Compared to the open source toolkits we were using, we typically save at least a day per month on just systems maintenance alone.”

“Another significant benefit we have seen here at the Center is increased system productivity to analyze proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, the cluster churns massive datasets on an ongoing basis.”

INPE

“We needed a solution that minimized the time and expense of cluster management.”

“With Bright, we are able to spend nearly all of our time simulating and investigating complex aerospace engineering models.”

“We chose Bright because its highly intuitive, integrated approach for managing our HPC cluster and associated libraries saves us a lot of time, and eliminates the need to hire staff to manage our cluster.”

Murex

“IT resources are rare these days and Bright Cluster Manager enabled us to avoid investing a huge number of man days rediscovering what others have already done, or re-developing something internally that we would have had to support for years.”

“The possibility to extend our cluster with EC2 is perfectly suited to our usage since, from time to time, we need to run some benchmarks on huge test cases which exceed our own compute capacity.”

— Pierre Spatz, Head of Quantitative Analysis at Murex

Boise State University

“In the past, I've tasked graduate students with cluster management using open source toolkits. This approach was low cost, but time consuming on my part, and somewhat risky.”

“At Boise State, we don't have the bandwidth to write scripts for node installation, synchronization or for ongoing cluster maintenance — which are extremely time-intensive tasks.”

“Bright makes tackling these tasks fast and easy, and lets us automate a lot of important but tedious procedures.”

“Bright cuts my own workload by 50%, and pays for itself over and over in terms of headcount savings.”

“At one point, several of our nodes were rebooting for no apparent reason, Bright's support team advised me on how to secure shell (SSH) tunnel via web browser into our cluster. Within a very short period of time, our cluster was up and running again, and a situation that could have presented a major issue was averted.”

“Bright's responsive team is unparalleled in terms of their around-the-clock accessibility and problem-solving abilities.”

— Ken Blair, HPC Systems Engineer at Boise State University

SHAO

“Bright helps us manage our cluster with much less effort, so that we can concentrate on our investigation to better understand the formation and evolution of cosmic structures by comparing computational simulations with observational data.”

“Bright Cluster Manager is easier to install and manage than open source alternatives on the market.”

“Because our scientists are also responsible for system administration, they are pleased to have a solution that allows them to spend less time on script-writing and more time on the science of understanding our universe.”

— Professor Weipeng Lin, Associate Director at the SHAO for Galaxy and Cosmology

SGRI

“Bright enables us to change the operating system in our development cluster within seven minutes, to meet specific application testing requirements.”

“This capability, combined with the ability to quickly test applications across multiple configurations has made it possible to reduce an array of clusters down to only one.”

“We've experienced substantial savings in terms of hardware, maintenance and a reduction in staff hours.”

“An added benefit of moving to Bright Cluster Manager is the intuitive GUI.”

“We have full visibility to every aspect of our cluster, even down to the temperature of our GPUs.”

“The GUI makes it very easy to manage our cluster, and the extensive features of Bright save us a lot of effort.”

— Duan Wenchao, Senior Engineer at SGRI

ITA

“Based on our experience with Beowulf clusters, we were convinced that we'd need to hire a specialist to help with cluster management as we added more nodes to meet increasing compute demands, and to keep our system running.”

“But after experiencing Bright, we decided that was entirely unnecessary.”

“Our scientists can themselves monitor node health with ease, and can reboot specific nodes, if necessary, with the click of a mouse.”

“Critically, we manage our cluster with minimal time investment, so we can focus efforts on conducting research.”

— Erico Rempel, Associate Professor and Researcher at ITA

NCL

“Bright Cluster Manager eliminates the complexity of managing and monitoring large clusters.”

“Bright is vastly superior to the tools approach we have used in the past — it gives us total visibility and control of the cluster through its intuitive GUI.”

“As a result, our customers are able to focus on conducting research rather than on cluster configuration and management.”

Avetec

“Bright Cluster Manager empowered the interns at our facility to quickly overcome many of the technical challenges posed by HPC cluster management.”

— Ronda Black, Systems Specialist at Avetec

ORNL

“When a job fails, the source of the problem is often difficult to identify. A job that crashes can run fine on another cluster, or even on the same cluster if you run it again.”

“You can spend hours in the data center pulling your hair out, pulling up floor tiles, or worse. Is it the machine? The middleware? The code itself? Or the data?”

“I spent a hundred hours or more over 5 months writing scripts to isolate the problem - a significant time investment, and a lot of crashed jobs.”

— Jesse Trucks, HPC Cyber Security Administrator at ORNL

Fermilab

“The black hole node syndrome is a serious issue. There are many subtle problems from apparently healthy nodes that can create cascading job failures.”

“The bigger the job, the more nodes, the higher the probability of failure.”

“We lose approximately .5% of jobs run due to BHNS - netting out to roughly 9,000 job crashes per year.”

“It's not always evident that there is a problem at first. The scheduler continuously assigns new jobs to the unhealthy nodes.”

“We don't realize there may be a problem until we notice that an extremely high rate of job failure has occurred on part of the cluster.”

— Dr. Don Holmgren, Computer Services Architect at Fermilab

Massey University

“What appealed to us about Bright Cluster Manager is that it is fully integrated and easy to use.”

“It’s leaps and bounds better than anything we have worked with in the past.”

— Dr. James Avery at Massey University

Massey University

“Installing a cluster with Bright is much easier and faster.”

“It’s especially useful that we can install new compute nodes to our cluster in minutes, or quickly re-purpose hardware. Bright minimizes the effort of tasks that previously took a lot of work, in a straightforward, intuitive manner.”

“It’s also helpful to us that Bright has a complete development environment with everything we need.”

“We were using Rocks and other open source toolkits, wasting far too much time on customization and keeping the various tool versions synchronized. We were reluctant to make changes to the system — it created too much overhead.”

— Dr. Michael Wormit at Massey University

Universidade do Vale do Paraíba

“We were looking for a cluster management solution that would remove the complexity of managing our CPU/GPU cluster.”

“We are researchers, not sys admins, and prefer to spend our time on science. We chose Bright because it’s efficient, easy to learn and use, and takes little of our time to get the most out of our HPC cluster. Further, we needed a solution that would easily scale as we expand our system.”

“Bright’s unified environment is a big advantage for us.”

— Dr. Irapuan Rodrigues professor of Physics at UNIVAP.

Texas A&M University

“HPC provides the backbone for our research”

“We rely on Bright Cluster Manager as part of our larger HPC environment. Its easy to use and displays critical information such as dips in CPU performance in a graphically appealing interface. This allows us to always have critical information available.”

Boise State University

Boise State University

“There is no way in hell I could run a one-man shop like this without Bright Cluster Manager.”

— Ken Blair, Boise State University

Drexel

“Bright Cluster Manager was a good choice for us. I’m a scientist, not a system manager.”

“The Bright GUI is intuitive and extremely easy to use. I can do everything I need to do on the system remotely — I almost never visit our cluster. I get alerts when attention is required, and am able to hand off much of the overall system management with confidence to an enthusiastic undergraduate.”

Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

“TACC always evaluates several vendors, and for this particular project Bright was the best choice.”

“We were impressed with the Bright Cluster Manager demo at the SC09 conference and decided to make a detailed evaluation here at TACC. Our findings confirmed to us that Bright was what we needed: a powerful cluster management solution that is easy to use, flexible and very capable.”

“Bright met our demanding requirements straight out of the box.”

— Tommy Minyard, Director of Advanced Computing Systems at TACC

Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

“The FutureGrid project calls for tremendous flexibility from the cluster management software. Aside from our own needs, we must meet the complex requirements of the FutureGrid community. For example, the Project calls for the ability to efficiently provision user-created software images for each experiment, without impairing productivity.”

ING Corporate Investments

“We have thoroughly evaluated both the company and its technology and have concluded that Bright is well-positioned to shake up its market and greatly extend its reach.”

“I'm impressed by Bright's rapid success in the market. Many large research, academic and commercial organizations in the US and Europe are using Bright to manage their complex systems.”

— Maarten Hopman, Head of Corporate Investments at ING

University of Groningen

“The Bright Cluster Manager software makes the management and monitoring of the cluster very efficient and easy, and it offers a clear insight into the status of the cluster at all times.”

— Hans Gankema, Manager Server Infrastructure at the University of Groningen

University of Frankfurt

“We are pleased to run Bright Cluster Manager on the LOEWE-CSC system because it has already proven itself on another TOP500-class supercomputer at our university.”

— Professor Volker Lindenstruth, Chair of HPC Architecture at the Goethe University Frankfurt amd Main

Sandia National Laboratories

“We are using several clusters of different size, architecture and complexity, and they are essential tools for our research. We require a cluster management solution that provides the flexibility to accomplish our diverse requirements, spanning from production to research and development.”

— James H. Laros III, Principal Member of the Technical Staff and computer scientist at Sandia

University of Houston

“I am very impressed with the efficiency achieved with Bright Cluster Manager. Our cluster with 1280 cores was up and running within a few hours, ready for integration into our HPC environment. Now it is continuing to save our system administrators valuable time.”

— Professor Lennart Johnsson, Director of the TLC2 and the Advanced Computing Research Laboratory at the University of Houston

University of Houston

“We have tried many different cluster management solutions in the past. We found Bright Cluster Manager to have a well integrated centralized management interface which is powerful and flexible enough to accommodate our specific configuration requirements.”

“For example, we like to setup our clusters with specific network configurations. Unlike previously used solutions, with Bright Cluster Manager this was very easy to configure through the intuitive GUI or the powerful command line shell.”

— Dr Ioannis Konstantinidis, Research Development Officer at the University of Houston

University of Houston

“Our cluster with 1280 cores was up and running within a few hours, ready for integration into our HPC environment. Now it is continuing to save our system administrators valuable time.”

— Professor Lennart Johnsson, University of Houston

Technical University of Eindhoven

“We have been using Bright Cluster Manager for more than half a year now and can recommend it to anyone who wants a complete and easy-to-use software solution for his HPC cluster.”

“Using Bright Cluster Manager is a completely different experience from using the open source cluster management solutions that you can download off the web. Its GUI is very intuitive to use and offers all functionality I need as an administrator on a day-to-day basis.”

— Erik Smeets, Systems Administrator at the Technical University of Eindhoven

CD-adapco

“Our partnership with ClusterVision and Bright Computing has greatly helped us to setup our new cluster in a short time frame and their support engineers have been responsive and helpful.”

— Dr Christian Fauchier at CD-adapco

CD-adapco

“Bright Cluster Manager is a comprehensive cluster management solution that provides all the functionality that we need here at CD-adapco. Our key applications — STAR-CCM+ and STAR-CD — were easy to install and run well on the cluster.”

“Bright Cluster Manager has many features that make it easy for us to manage the cluster and allow us to focus on running our CFD and CAE applications.”

“For example, the image based provisioning makes it very easy to tailor software images and propagate changes to the compute nodes.”